Has Clifford Char, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,559 in general payments to Clifford Char, MD across 40 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Clifford Char, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Clifford Char, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Clifford Char, MD

Anesthesiology · Honolulu, HINPI 1598786212

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 62.2% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,949 and has fallen 76.5% since, to $459 in 2025. Among anesthesiology clinicians in HI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$5,559in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $138.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Edwards Lifesciences$3K
Baxter Healthcare$478
Abiomed$294
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$266
Octapharma USA, Inc.$149
Terumo Medical Corporation$148
plus $764 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,99954%
Food & beverage$2,56046%

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Edwards Lifesciences	11	$3,461
Baxter Healthcare	8	$478
Abiomed	3	$294
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	3	$266
Octapharma USA, Inc.	2	$149
Terumo Medical Corporation	1	$148
Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$133
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$133
Atricure, Inc.	2	$111
Davol Inc.	1	$92
Boston Scientific	1	$82
Vyaire Medical, Inc.	1	$65
Biom'up SA	1	$60
Merck	1	$31
Zimmer Biomet	1	$20
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	1	$19
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	1	$18

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$5,559 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 186 anesthesiology providers in Hawaii.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$53,608

Medicare patients

138

Services billed

304

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

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Adam AritaHonolulu$2K
Tiffany ChingHonolulu$2K
Grace LiuHonolulu$1K
Walter Quiroga RoblesHonolulu$1K
Carly WachiHonolulu$693
della LinHonolulu$684
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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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